No time to mess with it now, but so I don’t forget I wanted to do it in the first place…there’s got to be a way to display the output of NetHogs in Conky. I can’t just chuck it on there because only root can run NetHogs, but Conky runs under my user account. Hmmmm…

I use the numbers across the top of the keyboard only when I’m typing in larger blocks of text, or (for instance) I’m on MSN and need to type a number. For stuff like logins, sudo and GIMP shortcuts, I always use the ten-keys because I’m right-handed and lazy, and they’re closer to the mouse.  […]

I’d had a kernel update, but hadn’t enabled Sun’s Virtualbox repos, so VB didn’t automatically update with the kernel. I forgot about it until I tried to use it, and it said it needed to be updated. Dutifully, I followed the instructions and went to the download page, but for some reason, it would give […]

mplayer -really-quiet url http://www.wxryfm.org:8000/ No GUI, kill to stop.

Lighting a fire under the molasses-running-uphill-in-January Gnome menu… sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/NAME_OF_THEME echo gtk-menu-popup-delay = 100 >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (100 works for me so far, but can be adjusted by editing .gtkrc-2.0; lower numbers faster, higher numbers slower) When I fsck up VLC again and get it stuck on a skin…. vlc –reset-config

It’s time once again to install the newest release of Ubuntu. Okay, it was time last Thursday, but I’ve been either too busy or too uninspired to back up the stuff in my /home, and I don’t want to even think about the mess on my storage drive (I should, but I can upgrade without […]